Put President Harry Truman on trial for dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan! This lesson helps to guide students through a mock trial and gives them the tools to help conduct it. It comes with worksheets to set everything up from the opening statements to the questioning of the witnesses to the verdict. It also comes with a primary source about the bombings of Japan and a short read about the pros and cons of dropping the Atomic Bombs on Japan.

Students will debate the first amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to pray at a school football game based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. What you get: 1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides. 2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. 3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate.

Students will debate the First Amendment in school in a fun and engaging activity that they can connect to real life. They will be debating whether or not the students had a constitutional right to publish the school newspaper based on the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment. What you get: 1. A one and a half page short read of the event, an explanation of the Bill of Rights that relates to the issue and a list of arguments for both sides. 2. A few questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. 3. A worksheet that will help the students write out and prepare for the debate

This packet comes with six different lessons that deal with school issues where the students rights may have been violated and students will choose whether or not the school administrator had the right to do what they did based on the Bill of Rights. There are followup questions to get the students to think beyond what they just read. The students will then write an argument in support of the administrator or the students. What you get in the packet: Each lesson comes with a short story of the scenario like a student being searched in school. It also comes with questions and instructions on how to write an essay if you choose to take the lesson further. Here are the titles of the six lessons: 1. Students Searched in School: 4th Amendment 2. Fight at School: No Trial! 5th Amendment 3. Students Organize to Protest School Problems and are Suspended: 1st Amendment 4. Principal Censors School Newspaper: 1st Amendment 5. Prayer at a School Football Game: 1st Amendment 6. Students Car is Searched at School: 4th Amendment

This is a great activity to better understand the Constitution. It has questions for each section of the Constitution. A great guide to help your students better understand the Constitution

There are three lessons on the Bill of Rights. One lesson discusses real life scenarios and how people are protected with the Bill of Rights. One Lesson is based on the Bill of Rights to get students to know their protections. The final lesson is vocab terms and questions.

Want to have a fun time in class while learning. Try playing a trivia game about the Bill of Rights. This game covers all 10 Bill of Rights. You will love it!

This is an activity where students will find the main idea and then create a tableau/skit. Each group will be assigned one of the ten Bill of Rights. Students will create a tableau (a frozen scene) where each student is part of the scene by freezing in four different pictures representing their amendment. After each frozen screen the student will come to life for a brief second to state his/her line and then refreeze. Students are to use the chart below to plan out their scenes and lines. This comes with 5 pages to include lesson plans, student planning sheet and Bill of Right Main Idea worksheet

This is a packet that contains everything you need to hold a mock trial. The packet sets up the mock trial with a short story where the principal has edited the school news paper. Put the principal on trial and see what the jury decides. The packet will guide the prosecution team and the defense team through the trial setting up opening arguments, questioning and closing statements. This is a fun activity that the students will love.

This is a packet that contains everything you need to hold a mock trial. The packet sets up the mock trial with a short story where the principal has edited the school news paper. Put the principal on trial and see what the jury decides. The packet will guide the prosecution team and the defense team through the trial setting up opening arguments, questioning and closing statements. This is a fun activity that the students will love.

This packet contains 13 pages to help guide students through a mock trial. The Mock trial looks a school prayer and whether it should be allowed a a school football game. The mock trial guide is easy for students to use and helps them from the opening statement, picking witnesses, questioning witnesses to the closing statements.

This is a guided mock trial that looks at the right to protest based on the first Amendment of the Constitution. The basic story of this mock trial deals with the principal trying to suspend students after protesting at the end of the school day. This packet of 12 pages has everything you need to hold a successful mock trial.

Review the constitution with a Jeopardy like game. This can be easily modified to change questions if needed. Very fun and great for review!

This packet has 3 different lessons about the Bill of Rights. One lesson has students look at different scenarios like when a cop wants to search you house. The students will then determine what protections they have based on the Bill of Rights. Another lesson looks at the meaning of the different Bill of Rights. The third lesson has students draw a picture for each of the Bill of Rights and then answer a few questions.

Have your students examine the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with this guide that helps the students understand the Constitution and the Bill of Rights with questions. This lesson also comes with questions about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to include real life scenarios. There are 18 pages in total.

This is a great activity to better understand the Constitution. It has questions for each section of the Constitution. A great guide to help your students better understand the Constitution.

This is a SGA packet to get your Student Government Association up and running. All the documents are editable to make it fit your student government program. Documents included in this packet: 1. SGA Constitution (Governing document) 2. Election ballot template 3. Peace week packet 4. Spirit week document 5. Fundraiser Documents and Flyer Templates 6. Pre-Election PowerPoint 7. Pre-Election sign up documents 8. Pre-Election Posters

This is a mock trial activity that looks at: Who owns the Moon? This activity is based on a true story of a man that claims to own the moon and has made millions of dollars off of selling property on the moon. There are 13 pages or resources to help guide students through the mock trial.

The Bill of Rights bundle is loaded with activities and resources. Here is what is in the Bundle. Bill of Rights writing activities based on different amendments (A total of 6 writing Lessons). These are short stories where the students will argue whether or not a students right was violated based on the Bill of Rights. Two sets of resources on the Bill of Rights. (Lots of Worksheets) Bill of Rights trivia review game. Bill of Right Power Point Project with Rubric. Bill of rights Tableau/Acting skit activity. Some of these resources are sold individually, but this is a much better deal with the bundle.